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Back home and folding

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rick5127

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Well as I was in Vegas for the last couple of months my home machines shut down. Quickly getting them built, up and running, I made a few mistakes that cost me.

I am in ~120th place after all that. Been stuck there for a while now with only my one dual 460 GPU machine churning out 25K a day.

Now that I am back up at home and avging ~120K a day. Much better. Maybe now I will finally crack into the double digit realm of folders here. Now if I can get the heat down in the room...

So anyways just wanted to say I have increased my folding 80K or so a day so that should help the team some.
 
OOpps spoke too soon. Lost my new 2600K machine. Looks like my overclock somehow killed the hard drive. Doesn't make sense to me but looks that way. Not sure though. I tried reformatting it and it Windows 7 says it can't create the partition or something like that. Tried deleting all the partitions and starting over but no luck there either.

W7 when it tries to install sees the disk ok but refuses to format it. So I am assuming the disk has fried or something. If anyone has a better idea I am all ears...

Meanwhile I am down about 40k ppd.
 
Sounds like it is just a good 'ol fassioned HDD crash.

Welcome home.

HDDs are cheap so it isn't too bad.
 
yah I hope so. It was so weird as it would not boot but would go through post. Then put the W7 dvd and it wouldnt boot to it. Wouldn't even ask me to boot to DVD. Just asked if I wanted to repair. I tried to repair but that wouldn't work. Finally now it boots fine into the DVD but won't format the disk. But like you said sounds like a HD crash. Now all I have to do is go get another.
 
Try another sata cable before you go buy a drive.
 
UN friggin believable.. wait till you hear this...

Spent the last 3 or 4 days trying to get this machine back up. Nothing worked.

I could not partition the drive when a brand new W7 64 install started. So tried new cable. no dice. Tried going into diskpart and manually deleted and created new partition. Tried to format... failed.
Went and bought a new drive. Same results.
Tried all of the above several times. Reset BIOS to defaults... no help.

Tonight walked into the computer room and remembered someone mentioned taking all their memory out except for one stick. So what the heck... removed all the memory except one 2gb stick.

W7 is now happily churning away... expanding files... so I am thinking this fixed it. But what the heck is that kind of crap!
 
yah it probably is. After rebuilding the entire operating system and updating it I got around to reinstalling to 8 gb. System went nuts with all kinds of weird problems. Booted ok but strange things started happening. For instance IE would not open. Said there was an error starting. Then it finally went to a blue screen. Took out 2 sticks and back to only 2 installed (4gb) and system is now fine... been folding steady for a few hours now.

Now I just wonder if it is a stick or the memory controller on the chip. (I7-2600K) If I remember right the memory controller is now in the chip right? Could I have damaged the memory controller by overclocking? I did boost the CPU voltage and multiplier but nothing else.
 
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